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What does sympathetic mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word sympathetic? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of, related to, showing, or characterized by sympathy.
  2. Of or relating to similarity.
  3. Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system.
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Barney is more sympathetic to the suggestion that the past counts against us.
The autonomic nervous system is divided into two more systems: the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system.
Here we will activate your sympathetic nervous system using a famous model pain stimulus: dunking your hand in ice water.
But to the contrary, the people were sympathetic towards her for having no father and a wastrel of a brother.
He is startling in the role of Jed, an achingly vulnerable figure who is tenderhearted, sympathetic, yet still very dangerous.
Too much sympathetic nervous system activity can be associated with stress, anxiety, and dysphoric mood.

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